Improvement in bottle-stoppers



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WILLIAM IIfGIBBS, 4CF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

Letters Patent No. 105,797, dated Jolt/'26, 1870.

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The' Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thevsame.

I, WLLIM HQGIBBS, of Cincinnati, Hamilton county, Ohio, have invented a newa'nd useful Improve.

ment in lBottle-Stoppers, of which the following is a specification.,` Na-ture and Objects of my ncentfion.

This is an Iimprovement in the class of Stoppers which are secured within or released from the necks of bottles by a clamp attached thereto; and

My invention consists, as to its rst part, in the provision, in connection with 'a common cork, of a headed rod or button of Vvitreous exterior, which both` serves to protect the bottom of the cork and affords a secure attachment for the clamp or other retainingr device.

The second part of my inventionrelates Vto a construction -of the clamp its'eladapted to retain the .stopper securely in position or to permit of its ready removal from `the mouth of the bottle without being detached therefrom so as to be lost.

Inrthe accompanying drawing- Figure 1 is a perspective view, exhibiting both of my improvements, `the stopper being shown in position in the bottle.; Y

Figure 2 is aV perspectiveview, showing the stopper withdrawn from the neck of the bottle and f `Figure 3 is'a seetion'through the stopper and'neck at c.

The cork Ais connedfbetween the button B and ametallic disk, E, an India-rubber washer, F, vbeing interposedbetween the said cork and disk.

The yoke to which the stopper is -attached consists of a cross-bar, H, having two downwardly-projecting arms, H211, whose lower extremities are united by a wire, L, vthatsurrounds the neck of the bottle.

These arms have each a series of notches, h, that are adaptedrto engage with the projecting and recurved ends-il j of two wires, I J, which are secured together and retained 'within the customary'circumferential groove K of the neck o f the bottle.

After the stopper. has been forced down into the neck of the bottle,'the arms H H are rotated around said. neck until the projecting ends j of the wires I J are caus'd -to engage with the notches It, thereby securing the stopper from accidental displacement; but,- whenever itis desired, the stopper can be instantly removed in the following manner:

The arms'H' H ofthe yokeare rotated in such a way as to cause the notches h to become disengaged from the projections tj,..w hen the stopper can be withdrawn and thrown over to` one .side of the neck, as

shown, in iig. 2, the wire D preventing the yoke and its accompanying stopper' being `disengaged from the bottle.`

After the cork A has become so worn as to become useless, the wire I) maybe unwound from the screwM threaded portion c' of the stem C, theV old'cork removed'and a new one substituted for it, which will be the work only .of a few`minutels.

Instead of employing an orcflnary glass or porcelain button, the bottom of the cork maybe protected'by an iron or other metallic disk, whose erterior should be covered with somo suitable vitreous enamel, and the disk could have a stein cast with it, so as to dispense with the hook-andeye fastening.

Claims. I claim hereinas new and vof my invention- 1. A bottle-stopper, whose cork A is protected on itsV under side with anv attaching button or disk, B, that is coated with a vitreous enamehas and for the purpose specified.

2.'The retaining device, consisting of the yoke H H' H" h, 'connected wires I J, recurved projectionigj, and wire L, for the purpose set forth.

In testimony of which invention I hereunto set my hand.

W. H.. GIBBS.

-Witnesses:

Guo. H. KNIGHT, J AMES H. LAYMAN.- 

